Mr. Tamm led the FBI team to identify victims and claim their official and personal effects.
Very few men have served the Bureau and the overall interests of law enforcement with the devotion and the talent that have characterized your efforts.
[7] By 1968, Time noted: Quinn Tamm, 58, is not a policeman at all, but he is one of the most influential voices for police reform in the country.
A former assistant director of the FBI, Tamm became executive director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 1961, quickly turned it from a genial club into a highly expert organization that not only trains police administrators but, on request of city governments, studies individual departments.
's jolting indictment of the Baltimore force in 1965, every top cop in the country has learned to judge his department in terms of not only what it has done to curb crime but, more importantly, what it should be doing to adjust to the problems of a fast-changing and impatient society.
[2] At the time of Watts riots, also in 1965, Tamm told 3,000 law enforcement officials meeting in Miami Beach: We are tired of sociologists, psychiatrists, militant civil rights leaders and others intoning that because people are deprived and resentful of authority they should be understood when they kill, destroy millions of dollars in property, commit arson, loot and pillage...We are tired of the cry that because one segment of our population has been deprived for 100 years, the balance of society must accept 100 years of anarchy.
this year alone has run 33 two-week courses for supervisory personnel and has provided consultant services to the community relations programs of 20 departments.
On the other hand, the magazine noted, "Privately, Calif chiefs... were appalled by the Chicago police work at the Democratic convention, which they saw on TV.
In 1977, Tamm appeared on the MacNeil/Leher Report (now PBS NewsHour) on the topic of DOJ indictments of FBI agents as a result of a New York Times story on "illegal break‐ins, mail openings and wiretaps committed by F.B.I.
In order to present my case, might I point out that I'm rather unique in the fact that I am speaking in defense of the FBI because of my previous relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, the Director, and the fact that I was the first person, probably, in this country to actively criticize and oppose J. Edgar Hoover for some of the things he was doing.
And the position taken by the Department of Justice in the CIA case was the fact that there was no firm program delineating the extent to which people could go in cases of national security or foreign threats; and for a variety of reasons of that type the Department decided not to prosecute CIA agents.
[10]Quinn married Ora Belle, a secretary in the FBI Identification Division; they had two children, one of whom is Thomas Tamm.